A winning combination of comprehensive, age-appropriate references in one online source.
Grolier Online and Grolier Kids includes seven encyclopedia databases:
- Encyclopedia Americana
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- The New Book of Knowledge
- La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre
- America the Beautiful
- Lands and Peoples, and
- The New Book of Popular Science.
This powerful education portal can be used by students, teachers, librarians, and patrons - anyone with an information need. The world is at the researchers fingertips with over 117,760 encyclopedia articles.
Go Tutorial
Located at the upper left-hand side of the home page, the GO Tutorial provides a good,
basic, 10-minute introduction to Grolier Online's features and homepages/environments.
Find it Fast!
Grolier's search box is located at the top center of the Grolier Online Passport
homepage, as well as on all subsequent pages. This powerful new search feature enables
the user to search encyclopedia articles, magazines, websites, and media simultaneously,
by simply entering a search term or terms and clicking GO.
Go Atlas
This Atlas can be used in several different ways. There are GeoPolitical, thematic,
historical, and exploration maps. You can also search maps for specific locations. The
Go Atlas offers latitude and longitude information for all major cities and a distance
calculator to calculate mileage. Articles are available about many different countries,
states, cities and bodies of water. There are also photos for many points of interest.
Feature Showcase
Three to four times a year the topic that headlines in the Feature Showcase will be
updated. The feature will be something of current interest to tie in with the
curriculum. These headlines are visually rich, interactive modules that include
interesting text, photos, videos, and quizzes. A rich html version is available for
those not able to download the appropriate players.
NewsNow
This feature includes three news stories, and these will be updated weekly. All will
include lesson plans, FastFacts and other enhancements such as Read More when applicable.
An archive, organized by topic is also included.
Today is...
A daily feature highlighting birthdays and historical events associated with each day of
the year. Users can view interesting information on the current date, or search for other
dates that are of interest to them by using the "What happened on another day?" search
area. Also included in Today Is... is a link to the Library of Congress American Memory
site, which also contains additional interesting information. This feature is identical
in GO Kids and GO Passport.
For Educators
The goal of this feature is to create a centralized area where educators can find
professional development resources, as well as resources to help them better utilize
Grolier Online in the classroom, library, and media center. For Educators includes a
collection of lesson plans organized and searchable by grade or subject, each correlated
to National Curriculum Standards.
La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre Version 2
There are more than 18,000 articles, 7,500 images, and hundreds of fact boxes and
tables—timelines covering world history and Spanish-language news stories. A dynamic
Spanish atlas, category browse, and the "Aula de español" module have been developed for
Spanish-language learners. A colorful new interface accompanies enhancements to
functionality such as a text-only, ADA-compliant version; search using Spanish
characters; bilingual Help and About pages; print/e-mail utility; separate search results
for articles and media; and much more.
